This is jaw-droppingly outrageous.
A Greenwich Village bakery owner decided Inauguration Day would be a fine time for a new cookie, chocolate with bleary, red eyes and big lips. He shocked a consumer by saying, “Would you like some drunken Negro heads to go with your coffee? They’re in honor of our new president. He’s following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his.”
This is the abbreviated version of the news report; Update: this is now the full version, h/t Gothamist Gothamist has the full clip. For a more appropriate tribute to our new president, I suggest the Pineapple and Coconut Cupcakes right here on this very blog. They certainly won’t leave a bad taste in your mouth.
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Well, this certainly gives a new twist to “food plus politics”, doesn’t it?
I’m just speechless.
I did something on Wednesday which I knew I shouldn’t do – I spent some time listening to Rush Limbaugh and Hannity, just to hear what they were saying. My feeling now is the feeling I had then – as though I need to either throw up or take a shower. Or both.
The question I keep pondering is who would want one of those cookies badly enough to fork over $3.50 for it. Of course, I can’t imagine paying $3.50 for any cookie. Those wacky New Yorkers……
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Hi, shore. It’s disgusting, that’s for sure. $3.50 for a cookie in NY is nothing. What’s surprising is that this happened in one of the most liberal, diverse neighborhoods in what is probably the most diverse city in the nation. Bigotry knows no bounds. I’m glad the clip is still up; the short version was on youtube and was taken down very quickly.
I know the barf and shower feeling. Those two, and several others, have gotten rich beyond belief by hate-mongering and pandering to the fears and prejudices of low-information voters and genetic bigots. They make me sick. During the campaign Robert Gibbs (now Obama’s press secy) was my Pretend Boyfriend for a Day when he called out Hannity — to his face — for his anti-semitism.
If you never caught John Cleese’s ditty about Hannity (yes, that John Cleese), here it is. Enjoy!
Ode to Sean Hannity (by John Cleese)
Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity
I really don’t know what to say to this.
Thanks for enlightening me . . .
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Hi, Ella,
Apparently that neighborhood is more diverse than we realized.
Many thanks for the Ode. It’s been printed out for possible delivery to a relative who thinks Hannity walks on water. I have to decide how much trouble I want to stir up in the family before I send it, though. Even if I keep it to myself, it’s given me a wonderful laugh on a gloomy morning!
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Oh. My. G-d.
I live far away, but I’ve visited the Village, and liked the culture there. “In honor” of the new President! Is he kidding? He asked his customers, and they thought it was OK? I wonder who and how many he asked. For the record, I didn’t appreciate his “Dead Geese” bread, either. His brother-in-law is Cuban, he says! Wow, that shows great racial tolerance, there, that does. Actually, in many families, that would be considered a “mixed” marriage, more’s the pity.
Hey, we’re all “mixed”, in some way or another. This guy is just “mixed”-up. I’m sure there are many other fine bakeries in New York City…
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Hi, Word – Good to see you. It is beyond words, isn’t it? I never like to see a business fold, especially in these times, but if people boycotted his shop I don’t think I’d lose a wink of sleep.
Shore – Hearing Cleese recite it was the best part! Just a hunch, but I doubt your relative would enjoy it the way we do….
Muse – Now how did you do that jazzy exclamation mark? I’ll have to check your code ’cause I love it! To call that guy “mixed up” is the kindest description possible. Yes, there are plenty of other good bakeries right in the Village and nearby and some of them are even great. Puh to him.
Ah..now I see
Give us all a break, a bigot is a bigot! this is so sad, especially considering that Kefalinos was probably given access (or his family) to starting this bakery with assistance from programs designed to help with “the American Dream.” how sad for you that you feel the need to gain income this way, and promote racism. Also you are lucky secret service hasn’t scooped you up for “terroristic threat/statement, against our President.” funny you didn’t seem to make anything in the form of your “cousin” and crook Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is another sad example of “your people.”
You must be proud as stupidity and ignorance runs in the “family.” Too bad the help you got to open your business didn’t go to a far more deserving person, who I am sure would have been proud to be an American, with liberty and justice for all, by the people for all people. God help you, He is the only one who can. you are a pitiful person in need of deliverance. Hopefully you repent and have remorse somewhere, even though it doesn’t seem possible! but God works in mysterious ways!
Thanks for your comments, Alice. He’s just disgusting and you’re right, it is so sad.
Apparently my brain was working the night shift again. I hadn’t even made coffee yet when this thought came to me, fully formed:
We could always make some Sober Old White Guy cookies. The only problem is, they’d be tasteless.
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Cutout cookies made with Crisco and no flavoring would do the trick!